ParamountThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obssed, wrten by senr entertament reporter Kev Fallon. To receive the full newsletter your box each week, sign up for week:A very gay even gayer movie!A very gay even gayer vio!The gayt of them all. (Happy Pri Month!)Actually, Top Gun: Maverick Is the Gayt Thg This WeekLast weekend, I ma a gay pilgrimage of my own. I took my sad ltle self to the nearby Alamo Draf
Contents:
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
Two years later, he doubled down on that reputatn wh a meo Rory Kelly’s die dramedy Sleep Wh Me, which he lays out the many reasons why Top Gun, wh s many homoerotic unrton, is actually a gay film. “It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
They’re gay; they reprent the gay man, alright? Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way.
Be the gay way.
Go for the gay way.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
Last year, when Top Gun celebrated s 35th anniversary, Vulture asked producer Jerry Bckheimer about the film’s standg as an inic moment gay cema. And what said was: “You’re gay now.
Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic. ” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
The volleyball scene is homosexual. Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg. The volleyball scene didn’t make gay.